Workshops and Nature Events so far this year

Workshops and Nature Events so far this year

In 2025, we’ve had a fantastic and busy year so far, getting out about in the community, hosting workshops in other locations around Wigan and in our community garden. It’s been great fun, bringing people together in nature, or bringing nature to them! Making the sessions friendly, relaxed and easygoing to join in. 

Family Seed Bomb Workshops

Most recently, we hosted two seed bomb workshops in April at St Anne’s. Having some messy fun and mixing soil, clay and seeds with families. The first session was pretty soggy weather-wise, but we still had a good turnout, and we embraced the rain as usual. The second session on the weekend saw a load of people coming together in the beautiful garden for a relaxing activity in the sunshine and making new friends. A young girl who came wrote on her little pot of seed bombs, “best day of my life!” IT doesn’t get any better than that, really.  

Spring Pots & Pine Cone Bird Feeders

A charity asked us to get involved doing nature-based activities with some of their clients. So we hosted a spring pots workshop with everyone at Standish Equestrian Centre. We had a lovely afternoon where participants made usd a variety of flowers and bulbs to create their floral displays to take home, and then we created easy pine cone bird feeders. Everyone enjoyed the session, doing a gentle sit-down activity while socialising together and bringing home pots and feeders. 

School Workshop

We did a short session in a local school, where each child in the class planted their own seed in a pot to take home, and then we added some plants and flowers to an existing raised bed in the class garden. 

TREES – Exhibition

In February, we joined the fantastic TREES exhibition (by Down to Earth & Things that Go on Things), where, over 2 nights together, we created clay folk with natural materials. The exhibition was such a delight and really fascinating. For our drop-in workshops, everyone had clay and a huge variety of natural materials to choose from to create their very own creature. 

Even though it was so cold, there was a little shelter in our tent, and the workshop was a great success, with around 150 young people and their families joining us each night in Whelley and Worsley Mesnes. thank you so much for having us! We absolutely loved it!

Seed & Plant Swap 

In Jan, we also held a seed and plant swap, so everyone had a chance to get some new seeds and plants for free and help with planting for the year. The weather was frankly hideous, but around 20 people came to join in! We had some great swaps, loads of new seeds to try out, and plants, which are always handy in the community garden.

If you’d like us to host a workshop for your organisation, or at your premises please get in touch and we’d love ot see how we can help. If you’re interested in attending any of our workshops, then please head to our social media where we update frequently with workshops, events and gardening sessions.